Short, concise and to the point -

[kyburg]

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[foogod.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of good points here, but I have to disagree with the conclusion drawn for "Morally condemning extremists who bomb abortion clinics". This is not inconsistant in any way with believing that abortion is murder. If anything, this is actually very consistent with the position that murder of any form (including abortion) is not acceptable.

Regardless of the justifications posed for abortion clinic bombings, rational people must acknowledge that at the very least this constitutes vigilanteism and hypocrisy (perpetrating the same sin that you are condemning others for). Moreover, as abortion clinic bombings often result in the injury or death of incidental people who have not been directly involved in abortions themselves, these deaths (and the potential for these deaths) cannot be justified in any case and quite clearly fall into the category of manslaughter at the very least.

Idolizing abortion clinic bombers would be roughly equivalent to stating that revenge killings and murder-initiated lynchings should be praised as well, and in my opinion that is a far more inconsistent position for a supposedly "pro-life" advocate to have.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Hence, the repeated use of "pro-life, my ass" comments.

The one thing that really bothers me about the whole "showing up at a clinic for purposes other than health care" is that any kind of behavior shown there (bombings, protests, discussions, leaflet passing, harassment) is considered the same kind of behavior - and trying the worst of it under racketeering law didn't do much but block the worst of it for a few years.

So - challenging the worst of the behavior in this fashion? Food for thought - and an interesting spin.

Maybe they'll get it. Maybe.